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tortury

US/ˈtoɹt͡ʃəɹi/

tortury noun: a place where torture is performed.

Noun

tortury

  1. (rare) A place where torture is performed.
    • "Ah," answered Jack on his own account, and with the openness for which he was distinguished, "you are afraid of little things. You were frighted of the tortury." "The tortury, indeed!" replied Monica, indignantly, "that is not a little thing, and at any rate I do not call a place a tortury because...1882, Emily Marion Harris, The lieutenant, by the author of 'Estelle', page 142
    • […] Josh and Paxton visit the "Museum Tortury." Roth presents us with the ghoulish historical instruments of torture—the miniature guillotine used to “punch” visitors' tickets, the eighteenth-century Witch's Chair, the hanging cage, the hooded henchman—if nothing else, the[…]2015 April 24, Aaron Michael Kerner, Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11: Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 115

Questions about tortury

What does tortury mean?
Tortury means a place where torture is performed.
What part of speech is tortury?
Tortury is a noun.
How do you pronounce tortury?
Tortury is pronounced /ˈtoɹt͡ʃəɹi/ (US).

Words near tortury in the dictionary

  1. torturing
  2. torturingly
  3. torturings
  4. torturous
  5. torturously
  6. tortury
  7. torty
  8. toruffle
  9. toruffled
  10. torula
  11. torulaceous

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